https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66281 --- Comment #6 from Gaurav Shukla <areyaargaurav@xxxxxxxxx> --- (In reply to Ilia Mirkin from comment #5) > (In reply to Gaurav Shukla from comment #4) > > (c) How do I check that runtime pm and vga switcheroo are enabled in my > > kernel. (Sorry, but I am a newbie to Linux). > > If you have your .config (which, depending on options, may be visible from > /proc/config.gz), you can look for > > CONFIG_VGA_SWITCHEROO > CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME > > Make sure both of those are set to 'y'. (This is only for optimus-type > systems, of which I'm assuming yours is one.) > > > > > (d) I cannot be sure about this as well. AFAIK, the nouveau module is built > > into the kernel. The modinfo result is as below: There is no config.gz file in my system. I have tried using "locate" as well. Is there some other way I can find this out. > > xf86-video-nouveau is the xorg ddx which interacts with the kernel driver. > In some distros, for maximal confusion, it is called something else, like > xorg-xserver-video-nouveau or something like that (don't have the exact > name, sorry). Can you please tell me how to find out (or search) if this is the case. Even if you can tell me where and how to look for, I will follow. > > > Actually I am working on some OpenGL/GLSL projects, for which I need GLSL > > 4.3, which I believe is still not available in nouveau driver. I was looking > > forward to be able to install the latest NVIDIA drivers. Will mesa 10,2-rcl > > solve this issue? Can you please recommend any other solution. The latest mesa based DRI drivers through yum is listed as 10.1.1. Will it work? > > Mesa 10.2 will support a few more extensions which are part of GL4+, but > will not provide all the features required to advertise GL 4.0 support (or > GL 4.3, obviously). You can see the general progress of things at > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/docs/GL3.txt. > > However it's rare to need ALL of the features available in GL 4.3, so > chances are you could restrict yourself to a lower, supported version + a > few extensions. > > Also note that GK208, while covered by the nvc0 driver, has en some > extra-special issues that the GK10x cards (and GF1xx cards) don't have. > Hopefully they'll be resolved semi-soon, but the hardware is not easily > available. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
